Keeping key members of your team in place often requires sizable contracts. There is always a trade off. The Saints are simply further along than the Falcons in maintaining a competitive squad. Restructures are required when you have key players with necessary large numbers. Y'all will be in the same boat soon after Ryan and Julio get their new deals.

That wont happen. Its called good cap management and knowing when to trust youth and when to stay with vets.

This is the difference. The Saints decided to keep Harper while the Falcons decided to release Turner for a better and cheaper option.

7-9, 13-3, 11-5, 13-3, 8-8, 7-9 - That's your last 6 years. You have 3 winning seasons out of 6. How in the Hell can you say you're maintaining a competitive squad? You defense was the worst ever in yards, you've lost some key pieces and depth, and your offense is aging. And you cap is shit, now and in the future. If it wasn't for your claims all last offseason about how great your defense would be, and how great your team would be without Payton, I'd worry about how you're missing how much trouble your team is in, but the constant delusions let me know you'll find a way to ignore that trouble when it comes, too.

Might as well ad 0-1 to the beginning of this year for the Saints too. Its pretty clear that their "reign" is damn near over.

Brees has moxie so he will come thru in some games but this rivalry will be dead this year. Falcons will sweep the Saints this year and it starts with week 1. Their celebration of Payton's return will be spoiled. This is for the revenge of the opening after Katrina.

Might as well ad 0-1 to the beginning of this year for the Saints too. Its pretty clear that their "reign" is damn near over.

Brees has moxie so he will come thru in some games but this rivalry will be dead this year. Falcons will sweep the Saints this year and it starts with week 1. Their celebration of Payton's return will be spoiled. This is for the revenge of the opening after Katrina.

Y'all better face the fact that your Falcons are starting the season 0-1. No way they win the opener.

Hell no. Lke I said, we can all agree that last season was an anomaly. I know you remember the year of the Vick fiasco. Any of you trying to talk about the Saints last season as being relevant know better.

Hell no. Lke I said, we can all agree that last season was an anomaly. I know you remember the year of the Vick fiasco. Any of you trying to talk about the Saints last season as being relevant know better.

The big difference is that you had a coach bail. Your organization was in turmoil. The Saints are returning back to the normality that led them to the best record over the previous three years.

to be fair, our team wasn't worth a shit for the 2 years leading up to the Vick Fiasco.

Thank you so much for pointing that out!!!

The Saints were coming off a great three year run when their bogus shit hit the fan. Expect to see them step it up even more in intensity. Teams don't want to play the Saints this season ... especially in the first game in the Dome with the challenge from the Seattle fans on which is the loudest.

I would applaud any of you that had enough confidence to show up at the game in person expecting a victory. I don't think any of you will, though, because you know how it would feel spending all of that money and then going out after the game and having to take on that good-natured ribbing that would eat away at your heart when the Saints win yet again.

Down deep you know that the Falcons will once again come up short against the Saints. I know ... right now you are sowing your oats and feeling all frisky ... but come Noon that Sunday of August 9th your balls will all be sucked up into your nether regions knowing what will come down. It will once again be that torture that you have experienced too many times before.

There will be the WTF's, MF's, GD's and all of the other expletives I relish reading in the chat while the Saints play the Falcons.

The Saints were coming off a great three year run when their bogus shit hit the fan. Expect to see them step it up even more in intensity. Teams don't want to play the Saints this season ... especially in the first game in the Dome with the challenge from the Seattle fans on which is the loudest.

I would applaud any of you that had enough confidence to show up at the game in person expecting a victory. I don't think any of you will, though, because you know how it would feel spending all of that money and then going out after the game and having to take on that good-natured ribbing that would eat away at your heart when the Saints win yet again.

Down deep you know that the Falcons will once again come up short against the Saints. I know ... right now you are sowing your oats and feeling all frisky ... but come Noon that Sunday of August 9th your balls will all be sucked up into your nether regions knowing what will come down. It will once again be that torture that you have experienced too many times before.

There will be the WTF's, MF's, GD's and all of the other expletives I relish reading in the chat while the Saints play the Falcons.